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user3127125
user3127125

Reputation: 87

Parsing on a date not working

I'm running in a problem when i'm trying to convert a String to a java.util.Date.

My date is formatted like that : Jan 23 2016 4:00:24 PM and I want to convert that String to a Date object. So to do that i'm using a SimpleDateFormat with the parameters that seems good to me according to the javadoc : MMM dd yyyy aa.

But when i'm running my code i'm encountering a java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Jan 23 2016 4:00:24 PM"

What could be my problem ?

Thanks !

EDIT : the code in question 

String dateStr = "Jan 23 2016 4:00:24 PM";
SimpleDateFormat parserSDF = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd yyyy hh:mm:ss aa");
Date date = parserSDF.parse(dateStr);

Upvotes: 1

Views: 502

Answers (2)

Alejandro Goñi
Alejandro Goñi

Reputation: 522

This code runs fine for me, and produces the output Sat Jan 23 16:00:24 EST 2016

    String text = "Jan 23 2016 4:00:24 PM";
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd yyyy hh:mm:ss aa", Locale.US);
    try {
        System.out.println(sdf.parse(text));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Upvotes: 1

Vladimir Vagaytsev
Vladimir Vagaytsev

Reputation: 2891

What is your default system locale? You can check it with Locale.getDefault() method call. I've tried your code, works fine for me with default en_US locale. But I tried to use another one (I used Chinese) and caught the same error.

Try to use SimpleDateFormat parserSDF = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd yyyy hh:mm:ss aa", Locale.US); with explicitly defined locale

Upvotes: 2

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